Greg Miller chuckles as he remembers how he created his first long-haul job at his parents’ trucking company 34 years ago. Armed with youthful bravado and a chauffeur’s license that allowed him to haul primarily farm materials intrastate, the 18-year-old discovered one of his dad’s drivers continuously dumping the clutch of one of the company trucks that he was backing at the company garage. Greg’s parents – Wilson and Wanda Miller – were out of state on vacation at the time.

“I told him to quit abusing the equipment,” 52-year-old Greg recalls. “He didn’t stop, and I told him to clean out his truck. He told me I couldn’t fire him.” But Greg prevailed, firing the driver and taking the truck to Meadville, Penn., where he delivered the load and picked up a backhaul to the Wooster, Ohio, area.